and have faith in us. even though it's getting more and more violent, if we push forward, we can succeed. >> woodruff: valdez was an interesting background. he was born in texas. he played high school football. tell us more about that. >> yes. by all accounts he grew up in a very middle class environment in laredo, texas. he went on to become a small- time marijuana dealer on the northern side of the border in the u.s., in texas. then he got in with the mexican cartels and really took off from there. his ability to move between the two worlds was quite effective. officials here say that when he was captured yesterday, he was moving a ton of cocaine into the united states. he moved very rapidly through the ranks. originally he was with one cartel and then when the belltran-lavas broke away he came with him and was one of their leaders of a group of hitmen that they had called loz negros. he's known as one of the most brutal men in this drug war in a drug war in which tens of thousands of people have been ki